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• The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
  -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)...
• One touch of nature...makes all the world kin. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.
  -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)...
• Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness.
  All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter....
• Going to the mountains is going home. -- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
• All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquake
  volcanoes, geysers, roaring , thundering waves and floods, the silent uproot of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart....
• Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home
  hat wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life....
• Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.
  Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them....
• When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.
  -- My First Summer in the Sierra , 1911, page 110....